The Rector's Wife

Anna Bouverie, a vibrant woman who has spent 20 years scrimping and saving to raise a family and support her husband's parish work, takes a job at a supermarket when her husband is passed over for a promotion. This simple expression of independence brings her the shocked disapproval of the parish and the icy fury of her husband. Isolated from her community, Anna finds a new self-reliance and attracts the interest of three very different men: Daniel Byrne, the new archdeacon; his younger brother Jonathan, a philosopher and academic; and Patrick O'Sullivan, the brash newcomer to the parish.